Pears everywhere – Aus dem Birnengarten

For the September issue of the magazine “Münster!” I had the pleasure of contributing the recipes and pictures about the PEAR-Story. Thank you “Münster!” for having me!
Before working on the recipes I didn’t know that there are over 5.000 different varieties of pears known worldwide. Pears are one of the world’s oldest cultivated fruits. The greek poet Homer already mentioned them as a “gift of the gods”. Of course it’s not absolutely necessary to know this when baking these delicious muffins, but it can’t do any harm to know, right? So have fun baking!

Place the chocolate with the butter in a little pot. Fill a bigger pot with water and put the smaller pot in it. Heat the water and melt the butter and chocolate using the double-boiler method. Heat the oven to 180 C/degrees.
Mix the cream cheese with the sugar; add the eggs and the melted chocolate. In a second bowl mix the flour with the baking powder and combine with the liquid ingredients. Peel and core the pears and cut them into small pieces. Fold under the dough. Fill the paper baking cups and bake for 20–25 minutes.